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Gleick, James

 
9780679747048: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0679747044 ISBN 13 : 9780679747048
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.

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À propos de l'auteur

JAMES GLEICK is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Isaac Newton, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679747044
ISBN 13 
9780679747048
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
560
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Personne responsable
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